Rhetoric and anti‐rhetoric in early American scientific societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9237234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph W Wenzel (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-336 |
| Publication date | 1974-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335637409383240 |
| OpenAlex | W2036422556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Under the influence of the Royal Society, and of Ramistic doctrine, early American scientists rejected rhetoric as an art of mere ornamentation. Later in the nineteenth century, the demands of scientific communication combined with the revised conception of rhetoric as effective prose composition to secure a role for the art in scientific discourse
Aesthetics · Art · Composition (language) · Doctrine · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Literary and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 1978 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |